Chapter XVII. Guerrilla Warfare

Lu Xiangsheng said: "I saw that General Zhao's subordinates were all fierce soldiers, so I asked General Zhao to escort the guards, and the enemy army was beheaded after retreating, how about it?" ”

He first said that Zhao Shujiao's heart was half cold when he was in the battle, and he didn't know when he would be able to get back the lost job without military merits, and then said that he wanted them to specialize in beheading, and he was in a good mood when he said that he wanted to be beheaded, and he would always be more or less divided into some heads in the end, and hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you for your love, and I will obey the instructions below." ”

Lu Xiangsheng ordered the cavalry not to dismount, and then spread out and lined up in a row and walked forward slowly, and began to shoot sixty paces away from the Jin army, and the horse's ears had already been stuffed with cotton cloth, so the gunfire did not alarm the horses. When the Houjin army began to charge, the cavalry quickly retreated, so that the Houjin army could only be beaten, and could not return fire at all, and if the dead and wounded sergeants were taken away, they would be even more unable to get rid of the pursuit of the Ming army, so when the guards came again, the corpses of the Houjin army were all over the ground.

Lu Xiangsheng led the cavalry forward first, leaving Zhao Shujiao and Jia Ding to cut off their heads. When they arrived at the front, the Houjin army actually set up camp at the foot of a small hill.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the enemy camp and praised: "I didn't expect that Jiannu also had generals who were proficient in camping, and the emperor said that they knew the war because of many battles, and it was true." ”

Wang Chengmin, the commander of the cavalry battalion beside him, said: "The bachelor used this method to make Jiannu unable to do anything, so he could only camp and hold on, but how long could this last?" Could it be that they live here. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "This is not the method I came up with, this is the guerrilla warfare that the emperor said, and this method is really good to use here." Let's stand back a little and let the horses rest well and wait for the evening before we attack. “

The Ming army retreated two miles, dismounted the cavalry by a small stream, took out a hay bag and fed a few handfuls of soybeans to the war horses, led them to the stream to drink water, and then let them graze. After taking care of the horse, take out the yakisoba and start eating.

Lu Xiangsheng and Wang Chengmin carefully observed in the first half of the Houjin Army Village, in the telescope, the Houjin Army was raising the wall in front of them, the two turned to the side, there was no movement on the side, and after looking at it for a while, the two turned back.

In the evening, the cavalry had already rested. Lu Xiangsheng led about 800 cavalrymen without night blindness (after adding corn flour to the fried noodles, the rate of soldiers suffering from night blindness was reduced, and Zhu Youxiao bought all the corn from Yan'an Mansion. He did not ride a horse to the enemy camp.

The moon has already come out, and although it is not too bright, it can still be seen clearly within a hundred steps. When everyone walked about two hundred steps in front of the enemy camp, Lu Xiangsheng sighed, and the people next to him passed to both sides one by one, and the army stopped.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the small pile of withered grass fifty steps ahead and understood Yue Tuo's plan. It seems that Yue Tuo has prepared for the night attack of the Ming army, so he is also ready for countermeasures.

Lu Xiangsheng gave the order to go down, the whole army lay down, and the soldiers of the first cavalry bureau opened fire together after hearing the sound of firecrackers, and the soldiers of the second and third bureaus did not move first. After the order was delivered, he asked Wang Chengmin to open fire.

After a bang, a large number of firearms were fired together, and some rockets were shot out of the Houjin military camp and landed on the dry grass pile outside the camp, immediately illuminating the front of the camp as if it were day.

However, there was no Ming army in front of the camp at all, which greatly disappointed the Houjin archers who were waiting in front of the wall to shoot the Ming army to death. Yue Tuo knew that the Ming army was not fooled, it must be behind the fire, but he couldn't send people out to attack, but he thought that he had already asked people to send reinforcements, and he would soon be able to get rid of this pestering heel, and he was also a little happy in his heart.

The fire gradually subsided, and Wang Chengmin suggested: "Bachelor, it's better to wait for the fire to go out before we attack." ”

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head: "Since Jiannu has already prepared, the strong attack will not have much effect, withdraw first, and talk about it tomorrow at dawn." ”

Lu Xiangsheng led the troops back to the temporary camp, Zhao Shujiao saw them returning, and hurriedly asked about the situation, Lu Xiangsheng said: "Jiannu is prepared, let's not entangle with them, everyone clean up, let's go back." ”

Everyone withdrew to the Central Right Institute overnight, and Yuan Chonghuan had already gathered some of the scattered young people, but did not arrange for them to go to Shanhaiguan. Lu Xiangsheng inquired about the reason, and Yuan Chonghuan said: "Since we have the reinforcements of Master Lu, we should be able to fight with Jiannu and leave the red flag here, such a great achievement, don't you want it?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "This time I just brought a thousand people to select the Liao, all the reinforcements are so much, and there are still a few days from here to Shanhaiguan, young and strong are not trained, can not be used in actual combat, and our food is not enough, so it is better to retreat first." ”

Yuan Chonghuan was still unwilling, and said: "Then let Qingzhuang go first, we have nearly 10,000 soldiers together, when we can tear off a piece of meat from the red flag, what does the bachelor think." ”

Zhao Shujiao wanted to speak and stopped, Lu Xiangsheng said: "Don't think about victory, think about defeat first, Jiannu also has reinforcements, if we send Qingzhuang back to Shanhaiguan first, and then lead the army to fight?" ”

Zhao Shujiao also said: "The bachelor's words are reasonable, the number of reinforcements we are insufficient, but only with firearms can we scare away Jiannu, if Jiannu has an army to help, then we are in danger." ”

Li Chengxian and Lu Zhijia also supported Lu Xiangsheng's idea, but Yuan Chonghuan was not as big as others, and no one supported him, so he had to agree.

So Yuan Chonghuan and Lu Zhijia led the 20,000 young men and 3,000 Ming troops who had been collected to go first, Zhao Shujiao and Li Chengxian each led 2,000 Ming troops to collect the scattered young men while marching, and Lu Xiangsheng took the cavalry to break the rear and finally contain the young Zhuang who had fallen behind.

Lu Xiangsheng asked the cavalry to act in a unit of flags, stipulating that they could only take Ningyuan as the boundary, and immediately turn to the west after arriving in Ningyuan.

Lu Xiangsheng led a banner of cavalry to the northeast, and on a small hill, he saw more than a dozen young men walking towards the east. The flag chief said: "Are they lost?" How did you go in that direction? ”

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and said: "I'm afraid it's not that they're lost, they deliberately went to the east, and now that the sun is in the sky, the direction is still clear." You take two people and tell them that they're in the wrong direction, and be careful not to go near them, understand? ”

The flag commander nodded and led two cavalrymen to catch up. These people are Bi Mazi with Mr. Li and his men, after they failed to assassinate Yang San, they could only act together, and when Yuan Chonghuan broke through, he took the opportunity to scream, and scared Qingzhuang into scattering, at this time he wanted to surrender to Houjin, and he had no chips in his hand, but if he didn't go to Houjin, everyone had already shaved their hair, so after thinking about it, they could only throw themselves to Houjin.

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